TWC Tours - Cumbria !

Having been escorted around several wonderful mountain trails by the Viking in her natural habitat of North Vancouver, I thought it would be a grand idea to try and work off some of the lard accumulated through Mum's glorious fry ups to date by doing some hiking of our own in the Lake District.

Now granted our choice of Ulswater at a whopping 4 miles long would not even register as a puddle in Canada but as they say ....... size isn't everything !

Never having been there before, the first world heritage site visit on this special tour was made to the ancient stone circle of Castlerigg. Sitting just outside Keswick and near Ulswater it made a stunning morning as the sun shone in between perfect Lake District clouds casting shadows over the high fells.


Being the ignoramous I am about such historical and cultural sites I found it welcoming to learn that much like Stonehenge not much is really known about this place. Well not much more than the nothing I knew anyway.


Very pretty indeed though.

Finding the high fell to be in the midst of lambing season, several of the little fluffy fellas were within arms reach at all times as we wandered the bridleway around the lake and had the Viking striding around in all directions trying to sneak up on one.


Although your average 18 inch tall lamb is much less scary in the wild than a brown bear, I was still concerned that 'Farmer Palmer' and his shot gun would not have been happy should the Viking have got a hold of one of these little dudes and started poking and squeezing it ! Hence I had to keep reigning her in and keeping her on the paths only.

Sitting on a crag overlooking the lake time ran out on our day and we headed home for a glorious beef stew with suet dumplings that mum had been cooking all day ! mmmmmm more lard !!!!

This of course only after having stopped in the Black Bull at Brookhouse on the way home for a welcome pint of Thwaites !

Next stop Yorkshire where I'm sure lambs will be replaced with whippets, pigeons and ferrets as the local fauna !